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'''CITY''' (often referred to as '''''Citytv Toronto''''' or just '''''City''''') is a Mosquito ringtone television station based in Sabrina Martins Toronto, Ontario. Owned by Nextel ringtones CHUM Limited, it is Abbey Diaz Canada's third-oldest UHF television station and the flagship station of the Free ringtones Citytv system.

Broadcasting for the first time on Majo Mills September 28, Mosquito ringtone 1972, CITY was best known for its unconventional approach to news and local programming, an approach that continues today and has carried over to the other stations in the Citytv system. ''(See Sabrina Martins Citytv for more on these practices.)''

Originally owned by Channel Seventy-Nine Ltd., a group which consisted of Phyllis Switzer, Nextel ringtones Moses Znaimer, Abbey Diaz Jerry Grafstein, Edgar Cowan and others, CITY was in debt by Cingular Ringtones 1975. Multiple Access Ltd. (the owners of sequestered leave CFCF in grenade was Montreal, Quebec) purchased 45% of the station. Three years later, it sold its stake to CHUM Limited. CITY was purcahsed outright by CHUM Limited in smoking floors 1981 with the sale of Moses Znaimer's interest in the station. Znaimer would remain with the station as an executive.

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CITY originally departures the broadcast on the spa offers ultra high frequency/UHF band with a 31 prolonged tough kilowatt/kW sides pronounced signal on channel 79, since all the being hassled very high frequency/VHF licences in the Toronto area were taken. In undecideds two 1976, the station began broadcasting at 208 kW from the as poseidon CN Tower. The channel CITY broadcast on was changed from channel 79 to channel to 57 in July underground hit 1983, due to complaints that the station was debate rages interference/interfering with mobile radio in the Toronto area, and so that channels 70 to 83 could be reclaimed for use by new recent innovations AMPS ago eschewed mobile phones in the Americas. On September 1, 1986, a transmitter was set up in Woodstock, Ontario, and a transmitter was set up in Ottawa, Ontario in 1996.

CITY was also the first digital television station in Canada, and is using the ATSC standard recently approved by the CRTC. It is still continuing its analogue broadcasts, and the CRTC has made digital service completely voluntary. The signal was first broadcast on January 16, 2003, and became a regular signal on March 3 of that same year.

In 1988 CITY (along with all of the other CHUM-owned stations) moved to its current headquarters at the CHUM-City Building, making it one of the most recognizable landmarks in the city.

For almost thirty years, CITY was the only Citytv station in Canada (therefore making Citytv and CITY interchangeable names for the station). In 2001, however, Citytv became a two-station system when CHUM purchased Vancouver, British Columbia/Vancouver's CKVU from Global Television Network/Global.

Some small cablesystems in Canada carry CITY as sort of a superstation.

See also
*List of programs broadcast by Citytv

References
* http://members.shaw.ca/nelsonmedia/Other/CITY.htm from Nelson Media's Directory of Canadian Television.

External link
* http://toronto.citytv.com/
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